SHAYKH AL-ISLAM BOSTANZADE MUHAMMAD EFENDI’S POETRY FATWAS II
BOSTANZÂDE MUHAMMED EFENDİ’NİN MANZUM FETVÂLARI -II

Author : Muhittin ELİAÇIK
Number of pages : 115-119

Abstract

The introduction of fatwas in the form of verse in the Ottoman Empire led to the fact that these poems were included in Turkish literature as a genre. Fatwa word, comes from the root feta in the brave, young, strong sense and it’s solution with a strong answer to a difficult problem. The work of giving fetvah in the Ottoman Empire was performed by the shaykh al-Islam in the center and by the mufti in the provinces. This business has been seen as an important public service; by the mufti or shaykh al-Islam a difficult question of sources were searched and were being revealed. For this reason, an expression for the mufti or the shaykh al-Islam is used hallal-ı müşkilat. A very large part of the Ottoman fetvas was written Turkish and as prose and in a small amount it was found as poetry. On the other hand, the number of fatwas given in Arabic reached an important number. The poetry fatwas in the Ottoman Empire were written by shaykh al-Islam or muftis, which has a special place among Divan poets. Bostanzâde Muhammed Efendi is also one of these sheikhs. He was even more famous with his fatwa, which ended the discussions on coffee in the Ottoman Empire. We have earlier introduced four of his poetry fatwas. In this article, his one poetry fatwa which was found later is introduced.

Keywords

Bostanzade Muhammea Efendi, sheikhulislâm, poetry fatwa..

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